Tuesday's high seas cat-and-mouse game followed assurances from Chinese coast guard that Philippine boats can deliver provisions to Second Thomas Shoal. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ABOARD THE BRP CABRA - As a United States military surveillance plane circled overhead, eight Chinese ships chased and briefly blocked four Philippine boats on a resupply mission to a tiny garrison in the hotly contested South China Sea.
A team of AFP journalists on board the BRP Cabra, one of the two Philippine Coast Guard vessels, watched as the Chinese vessels chased, blocked and corralled the four Philippine vessels.Eventually, both supply boatsAFP was one of three media outlets given the rare opportunity to join the Philippine resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal, less than three weeks after Chinese coast guard ships used water cannon against a similar resupply operation.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, through which trillions of dollars in trade passes annually, and has ignored an international ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.China deploys hundreds of vessels to patrol the South China Sea and its reefs and Manila says China’s coast guard and navy ships routinely block or shadow Philippine boats there.
As this week’s resupply mission got under way on Monday, Chinese vessels patrolling the South China Sea appeared to be manoeuvring into position soon after the boats left Palawan. It was joined by another three Chinese coast guard ships soon after daybreak on Tuesday, sailing alongside the resupply mission.
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